Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

Jane Yolen

Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.

Jane Smiley

The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.

Max Muller

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

Michael Gruber

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.

Patricia Crawford

She was a legend in her time. The issue of childhood obesity seems so current now, but imagine what it was like in the 1960s when she sought funding for such studies. She had foresight into a growing problem.

Jesse Metcalfe

I had a relatively tumultuous childhood.

Jennifer Lee

I am obsessed with Chinese restaurants. Like many Americans, I first discovered them in my childhood.

James A. Baldwin

I began plotting novels at about the time I learned to read . The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy , and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.

Barbara Mikulski

There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.

Brendan Behan

Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

Cameron Diaz

When things are meant to come together, they come together.

Deepak Chopra

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

Deepak Chopra

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

Dustin Hoffman

Myth is supposed to bring us together, but fantasy alienates us.

Ann Beattie

Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.

Thomas Huxley

Mr. Darwin's hypothesis is not, so far as I am aware, inconsistent with any known biological fact; on the contrary, if admitted, the facts of Development, of Comparative Anatomy, of Geographical Distribution, and of Palaeontology, become connected together, and exhibit a meaning such as they never possessed before; and I, for one, am fully convinced that if not precisely true, that hypothesis is as near an approximation to the truth as, for example, the Copernican hypothesis was to the true theory of the planetary motions.

Sylvester Stallone

For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.

Dick Lamm

This is not a self-correcting problem. PERA needs to be put on a long-term program toward solvency.

Fred Felleman

The whale has always flirted with this kind of danger. It was like that old children's cartoon, 'Are you my mother?' Orcas are very social animals, and this was the only way to get his social needs met.

Carnie Wilson

We need to eat and enjoy it but control it. That's what I do now.

Jamie Zawinski

Your needs are big because the Internet is big.

Charles Spurgeon

Every generation needs regeneration

Dick Van Dyke

You need someone to love, and something to do that you enjoy, and something to hope for, and that's enough for me.

Bruce Lee

We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement.

Eckhart Tolle

You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God

Elif Safak

No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.